Mana pool gets empty too fastFollow

Hey all.

I'm currently playing my lvl 21 Undead Mage.
According to talents people suggested me, fire is the best to level with.
With 1600 mana at lvl 21, i can barely kill 2 monsters with full mana.
Am i using the wrong spells, or the wrong talents?
Could anybody give me a good spell usage/build?

Thanks.

I respecced to frost, it seems to work better, but it's still oom very fast.
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Jaedenar&n=Draghonfourt

1. This might be a dump point - Are you casting Arcane Intellect on yourself?
2. You can lvl in any spec - Fire, Frost, or Arcane
2a. What ever spec you choose - it's safe to say INSTANT Spells cost a lot of mana for the Damage done. (aka - they are not efficient)
3. Spell rotation should be: Main Nuke (Frostbolt, Fireball, or Arc. Missles), Main nuke, Frost Nova, Move away, Main nuke
3a. You can edit it for your personal play style, but if you're throwing a lot of instant spells in there, you're not being efficient.
4. At your lvl, a wand is still a viable weapon. Use it to save mana
5. What lvl mobs are you taking on? I recommend green or yellow. There is no reason to kill Orange or Red if you can avoid it.

that looks pretty good right now.

To echo what Borsuck said, get a good wand and keep it up to date with you. It will do a good amount of dps and will not be interrupted like spells when yo uget a mob in your face. I would normally cast a couple of spells and then wand to start regenerating mana.

also notice your bracers only stat on them is +7 fire dmg. This means they are practically useless while you are specced frost. I would look for bracers with some +int and +stam. Check the AH, you can probably pick some up for less than 1g. Even small amounts of stats make a huge difference at low levels.

Thanks, but it is pretty useless to give a lvl 23 a lvl 40 build.

And i got new bracers, just need level up for 'em.

And my Azure Silk gives some nice frost bonus.

I went Frost from the start and i did wonder at the time if i would be drinking constantly but now at level 36 i am just getting the benefit of the Manna saving Talents ( yes i know i went for damage talents first ) i still need to drink every few kills (it also helps to have full Manna against any surprises ) , and that's something i have got used to doing . but it has its benefits in that while drinking i can check out the next mob and see where i need to be which is better than moving into the next attack without checking first.

As you get higher in level there are Manna gems , and the magic 'Evocation spell' to replace manna fast so it does get easier .

Others have put all the main ideas here and they are right , Stay at distance , Use freeze trap , blink or run away and restart attack , if you use instants they will burn your Manna , also with Manna Shield up that will burn Manna if you get hit .

I went for spell Damage gear so have lost a lot of Manna but still have 3000 Manna , and from around level 33 Frost does seem to be the best way for me to go forward.

I have seen Mages levelling in all 3 Talent Trees , they all are viable but of course each to their own destiny , Fire has the lead at lower levels , Frost in mid 30,s and Arcane i have not yet tried out , but i have seen it is still viable ( i still love the graphics on the Arcane missiles ) not sure how it compares against the others though but one day i will try it out.

I have a level 70 mana hound I mean mage. I am glad food and water more so water is free. I started out a hybrid frost and fire figuring in bg's some have frost buffs others fire so I can do damage either way. Then someone said I should respec frost I did the only thing I really liked was the water elemental. Then someone said I should spec fire I did and didn't enjoy it at all. So now I am back to a squishey hybrid. The only thing I can say is good luck make sure you have your mana stones lots of water and mana pots. and a good wand. dps is awesome but you run out of mana to quick. Go intellect. what I do which is probably the wrong thing is I go frost bolt fire ball arcane missles fire blast arcane again depending on how low my mana is frost nova and wand. it works for me but not for all. good luck .

I've always considered drinking (hell) a lot to be normal. I'm at 34 at the moment and I need to drink every 2 mobs, maybe 3 if I take it slow and wand a bit.

I just don't mind though, always thought this is why we can summon our drinks rather than having to buy them. And seeing as I blow up most monsters in a matter of seconds, it all evens out.

Then you fail as a prot pally, or you pulled a 13the and 14th mob and should have stuck at 12. Seriously though, I don't think I've seen my hp/mana bar drop below half on my prot pally alt in quite some time unless things go wonky (I pull too many, didn't see casters, w/e).